NEW YORK (WABC) -- A Janis Joplin Tribute Band was busted flat, but not in Baton Rouge, rather near Boston, and was never paid for this playing a gig. They were hired to play at the Music Room in West ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock’s multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band ...

A chance meeting led guitarist Sam Andrew to form a band with Peter Albin more than 40 years ago. After all these years, Big Brother and the Holding Company are still around. “It was one of those ...

Sam Andrew survived the Summer of Love with a good story to tell. He'll be at Toad's Place tonight to share it. His band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, is part of a Summer of Love 40th ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Several years ago, when Charlene Raco became friends with people at a hippie-themed music magazine, she got to meet some members of legendary 1960s bands like the Grateful Dead ...

Music journalist Holly George-Warren, author of the new biography, "Janis: Her Life and Music" (published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS), offers "CBS Sunday Morning" a roster of favorite ...

SAN GERONIMO, Calif. -- Sam Andrew will soon embark on what might be mildly called a challenging task: Replacing his rock band's long-dead singer -- Janis Joplin. This time around, his band's ...

For the September, 1993 issue of High Times, Cree McCree provided an exhaustive profile of Janis Joplin, who died on October 4, 1970. She was the brashest of the brash, the life of San Francisco’s ...

Longtime music manager Bennett Glotzer, who helped guide the careers of such legendary artists as Janis Joplin and Frank Zappa, died on July 9 in Los Angeles due to complications from heart disease.